Spatial Attention Attracts Receptive Fields Throughout the Human Visual Brain
Spatial Attention Attracts Receptive Fields Throughout the Human Visual Brain. We use attention to focus on relevant visual INFORMATION. Using human neuroimaging and modeling, Klein et al demonstrate ...
How Brains Filter Familiar Stimuli: The Negative-Image Model for Habituation
Ramaswami proposes a conceptually simple mechanism by which nervous systems may identify and filter familiar or predicted stimuli. He further discusses the importance of this mechanism for higher cogn...
Multisensory Plasticity in Mothers - How do the physiological changes associated with motherhood influence sensory processing within the mother's brain? In this study, Adi Mizrahi and colleagues find ...
Molecular Structure of β-Amyloid Fibrils in Alzheimer's Disease Brain Tissue
Robert Tycko and colleagues find that amyloid fibrils derived from AD patient brain tissue reveal a single predominant structure within a patient sample but with key differences between samples, raisi...
In A Flash: Firefly Communication - Fireflies communicate with a "language of light" that scientists still don't completely understand. James Lloyd and Marc Branham of the University of Flor...
How Attenuated Viruses Become Virulent / Cell, March 23, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 1)
How Attenuated Viruses Become Virulent. In this issue’s Video Abstract, Raul Andino describes the evolutionary strategies by which vaccine strains can become pathogenic, and provides a framework for r...
Unraveling the complexities of cell migration - Many types of cell move towards substances they find attractive via a process called chemotaxis. In their latest Developmental Cell paper, Dr. Carole P...
Endophilin beyond Endocytosis - Endophilin A1 is known to play a role in the endocytosis of synaptic vesicles. Now, Christian Rosenmund and colleagues find that it contributes to synaptic vesicle exoc...
